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Cite as: 531 U. S. 98 (2000)
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with the requirements of equal protection and due process without
substantial additional work. The court below has said that the legislature intended the State’s electors to participate fully in the federal
electoral process, as provided in 3 U. S. C. § 5, which requires that any
controversy or contest that is designed to lead to a conclusive selection
of electors be completed by December 12. That date is here, but there
is no recount procedure in place under the state court’s order that comports with minimal constitutional standards.
772 So. 2d 1243, reversed and remanded.
Theodore B. Olson argued the cause for petitioners. With
him on the brief were Douglas R. Cox, Thomas G. Hungar,
Benjamin L. Ginsberg, Michael A. Carvin, Barry Richard,
Miguel A. Estrada, George J. Terwilliger III, Timothy E.
Flanigan, William K. Kelley, John F. Manning, and Bradford
R. Clark. Joseph P. Klock, Jr., argued the cause for Katherine Harris et al., respondents under this Court’s Rule 12.6 in
support of petitioners. With him on the brief were John W.
Little III, Alvin F. Lindsay III, Ricardo M. Martinez-Cid,
and Bill L. Bryant, Jr. Briefs in support of petitioners were
filed by William Kemper Jennings for Glenda Carr et al.; by
Robert A. Destro for Stephen Cruce et al.; and by George S.
LeMieux and Frederick J. Springer for John E. Thrasher,
all respondents under this Court’s Rule 12.6.
David Boies argued the cause for respondents Gore et al.
With him on the brief were Laurence H. Tribe, Andrew J.
Pincus, Thomas C. Goldstein, Jonathan S. Massey, Kendall
Coffey, and Peter J. Rubin.*
*Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the State of
Alabama by Bill Pryor, Attorney General, and Charles B. Campbell, Scott
L. Rouse, and A. Vernon Barnett IV, Assistant Attorneys General; for
the Florida House of Representatives et al. by Charles Fried, Einer Elhauge, and Roger J. Magnuson; for William H. Haynes et al. by Jay Alan
Sekulow, Thomas P. Monaghan, Stuart J. Roth, Colby M. May, James M.
Henderson, Sr., David A. Cortman, Griffin B. Bell, Paul D. Clement, and
Jeffrey S. Bucholtz.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the Brennan
Center for Justice at New York University School of Law by Burt Neuborne; and for Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General of Florida, by